LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes and News
ELSEWHERE in this issue will be found full accounts of services performed by the Life-boats at Lowestoft, Gorles- ton, Spurn and Stromness, for each of which the Committee have made special awards of the Institution's medals for...
Category: Articles
A Rescue—Described By the Rescued. The Yacht Gull and the Shoreham Harbour Life-Boat
ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....
Category: Services
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
INTERNATIONAL HEROES
The RNLI’s Future Leaders in Lifesaving programme has picked up a prestigious HERO Award from the International...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting, 1901
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., V.P., m THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., V.P.
Seconded by Sir JOSEPH W.
PEASE, Bart., M.P.
Category: Meetings
Britannia Rescue
.-' We've been voted 'Road Rescue Best Buy1 for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...
Category: Advertisement
London International Boat Show 1980
FOR THE FIRST TIME ever the RNLI had two different stands at Earls Court and for many of the thousands of visitors there was no doubt that the lifeboats were stars of the show. The spotlight fell on us time and again allowing us to give a...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY MAY 16 TRIUMPH IN THE FACE OF A MOST TESTING WINTER 'GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME . . .' The annual general meeting of governors of the RNLI, held this year for the first time in the Purcell Room of the...
Category: Meetings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MILFORD HAVEN.—It being thought desirable to place a life-boat at Milford, the Institution 'decided to form a station there. A substantial house was accord- ingly constructed at Angle Point, a position which enables the life-boat to...
Category: Articles
The Screw Flat Victoria
The screw flat Victoria, of Liverpool, bound from Pen- maenmawr to Birkenhead with a cargo of macadam, became unmanageable in the Rock Channel on the 12th March, in consequence of a mishap to the steering gear and the bursting of the...
Ceremonies
When Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, named a new lifeboat at Ramsgate on Friday 16 July, it was an historic occasion in more ways than one. This was the first time that a lifeboat was named in honour of a...
Category: Inaugurations